This section is for contributors memories of Canvey Island from the early years of the last Century. Roughly from 1900 to the Second WW in 1939 and up to the 1950's. This was the time of Hester, early bungalow settlements and the start of the big increases in population on the island. The time of WW1 and the depression, when Canvey was changed forever. If you remember those years please upload or email in your memories.
George Milford Remembers
The connection to the Teskey family
Reginald Bernard Newman
Survived WW2 killed Korea
Canvey in the 1920's
Rare old Photos discovered
Memories of Canvey Island
in the 1920s and early 1930s
June Debnam's Memories
The Debnam Family and Oysterfleet Stores
I was born in 1941
Memories of wartime Canvey
Stella Goodchild
Canvey Memories
Canvey Front, in the 30s
Tea shop at Pavilion Jetty
My Canvey, part one
Written by Maureen Buckmaster
Marlborough House
Old Photo from 1934
Post Cards from Canvey
from Beatie Addington
Round about three
Canvey in the early 1930s. Impressions of childhood.
The Sad Ghost of Canvey Island
As told to James Wentworth Day
The Doodlebug Baby
School days and beyond
Memories of Canvey Island
Written by Linda Perfect nee Sparkes
Interview with Aubrey Stevens
Interviewed at home 'New Dunmow House' 1 Gafzelle Drive 1983
The Labworth Café
Early (1933?) image
Quenby's The Oldest Island Chemist
Written by Miall James and published in 'The Bulletin' in 1980
The Formation of the First Canvey Island Cricket Club
written by Laurie Lock-Dingley and published in the Bulletin in 1984
My Mother's memories of Canvey
Particularly Cox's and Ozonia Hotels
Audrey's Quest
Looking for her Nan, Mabel Lewis
Holidays on Canvey
The Phipps Family
A special message just for Canvey Archive
written by the Novelist and Poet Bernard Durrant
Canvey Carnival 1927-2000
Interview with Mary Dallas
John Luck
emailed in by his great granddaughter Sharon Sciachettano
Within Living Memory
My memories start on Canvey Island in 1928-1937.
Life on Canvey in the 1920's
Freda Tozeland and Bersalem
The Parks Family and Canvey Island
Marjorie Parks' memories of Canvey
The Woods and Bone families of Canvey Village
From information given to me by Richard Powell
Over 80 years on Canvey
Richard Powell's memories
A 'Showman' comes to Canvey
Dick Monte Aka Richard Monte-Williams 1876-1953 written by his granddaughter Pauline Gashinski
A Dynasty Of Oggs
Canvey history reflected in the families of Ogg and Pound
The Hartfield Family on Canvey
1920's Canvey Pioneer Morris Hartfield